Random Insanity Alliance Forum, Mark V
Cactuar Zone => Random lnsanity => Topic started by: simomo on March 02, 2008, 11:22:27 pm
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Who here thinks Easter is just another holiday for people to buy crap?
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I dont really do anything for easter//yes
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If I say any thing it will turn in to a debate that will get some folks all mad and go Reogas being mean to me. So Ill keep my mouth shut.
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Since I'm religious...I vote no.
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Yeah, but I don't care cos I get heaps of free chotonicte and a few days off school.
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Easter has become like most things commercial and the true meaning has been lost to a lot of people.
To me it is just really another day, but with more brats hanging around due to the holidays. When I was younger and religious it not a time for chotonicte and my parents did not buy any.
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What exactly is the point of a bunny and choc.olate eggs?
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What exactly is the point of a bunny and choc.olate eggs?
bunnies are cute and chotonicte tastes good
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What exactly is the point of a bunny and choc.olate eggs?
Puts on .
The early Catholic church had an interesting solution regarding supplanting religions and beliefs native to lands they were expanding into. Instead of simply trying to wipe out those beliefs, the church looked for ways to mesh them into Catholicism. As far as the rabbit, there isn't a lot of evidence that survives to fully explain how the bunny got intertwined with Easter, but there some circumstantial evidence that survives. Pagan religions celebrated the spring equinox and the symbol of that celebration was the rabbit. Rabbits, along with eggs, were considered symbolic of fertility and spring was seen as time of fertility for the earth. So, it's most likely that the Catholic church incorporated those symbols into early Christianity for Easter, to make it more acceptable to others.
As far as choc.olate goes, there's even less evidence (besides the fact that it makes candy companies a lot of money,) however, since Easter is preceeded by Lent, 40 days that Catholics historically fast and pray in preparation for Easter, it could be that choc.olate and other sweets were used by parents as a reward for their children going through 40 days of a very meager diet. Historically, fasting didn't mean you starved yourself, it meant that you were going to survive on the bear minimum of necessities (like food,) and human contact so you could concentrate on prayer and devotion.
Takes off , grabs a
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my chocolate popcorn is leaving
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Now If I DID THAT it would have turned in to a debate with all the flames that go with it
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=O
Cadbury eggs is why Easter exists.
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What exactly is the point of a bunny and choc.olate eggs?
Puts on .
The early Catholic church had an interesting solution regarding supplanting religions and beliefs native to lands they were expanding into. Instead of simply trying to wipe out those beliefs, the church looked for ways to mesh them into Catholicism. As far as the rabbit, there isn't a lot of evidence that survives to fully explain how the bunny got intertwined with Easter, but there some circumstantial evidence that survives. Pagan religions celebrated the spring equinox and the symbol of that celebration was the rabbit. Rabbits, along with eggs, were considered symbolic of fertility and spring was seen as time of fertility for the earth. So, it's most likely that the Catholic church incorporated those symbols into early Christianity for Easter, to make it more acceptable to others.
As far as choc.olate goes, there's even less evidence (besides the fact that it makes candy companies a lot of money,) however, since Easter is preceeded by Lent, 40 days that Catholics historically fast and pray in preparation for Easter, it could be that choc.olate and other sweets were used by parents as a reward for their children going through 40 days of a very meager diet. Historically, fasting didn't mean you starved yourself, it meant that you were going to survive on the bear minimum of necessities (like food,) and human contact so you could concentrate on prayer and devotion.
Takes off , grabs a
I see.
I'm religious as far as my faith in God goes, but I know jack shit about holidays. Mainly because I don't give a crap. Whether or not they were important back in the days, it's all about people making money off of them these days.
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The whole point of the bunny is because St. Peter was secretly a rabbit. I have no idea about the chocolate though.